Surrey Innovation Awards
The Surrey Innovation Awards celebrates, educates, and connects innovators across all industries by Surrey businesses and helps make Surrey a recognized hub of innovation by igniting a new narrative for our city, strengthening its economic future and building the spirit of innovation.
“It is Surrey’s innovative companies that will meet the challenges of the new economy, expanding opportunity in this great city and improving lives around the globe”
– Anita Huberman, CEO, Surrey Board of Trade
Innovation Concepts:
- Transforming ideas into commercial reality
- Improving business processes
- Tying academic research and developments into commercial reality
- Innovation requires collaboration across a wide range of constituencies, including corporate leaders, start-up entrepreneurs, university leaders, faculty members, and students, investors, and public officials.
Nominations
Nominations are now closed for 2020.
Categories
- Small Business Innovation Award
- Large Business Innovation Award
These awards recognize a business or organization that has developed a new or improved technology, service, process or product by using creative methods and innovative thinking that has the potential to transform an industry sector or quality of life. - Social Innovator Award
Demonstrates an approach to finding creative and workable solutions for the complex social issues facing modern communities, particularly Surrey, and emphasizes good ideas alone are not enough to make the kind of progressive change that builds a better city.
Criteria
Based on a possible maximum score of 100, each category will be awarded a maximum of 20 points:
- Intellectual Achievement – The degree of intellectual achievement or quality of ingenious thinking and experiment to discover, create or conceive the innovation.
- Uniqueness and Originality – Refers to the state of being original; the freshness of aspect, design or style utilized to produce the invention.
- Development – Refers to the extent to which the idea or concept has been thought through to completion.
- Commercialization – Refers to the degree of successful commercialization or quantifiable impact of the innovation.
- Benefits – Refers to the economic and/or social benefit to Canada resulting from the innovation.
Submission
Please submit your nomination to:
Heather Booth
101-14439 104 Avenue
Surrey, BC V3R 1M1
heather@businessinsurrey.com
T: 604.634.0341
F: 604.588.7549
2021
Live WELL Exercise Clinic
2020
Firetech Manufacturing Ltd.
2019
Small Business Category
NovaBio Rubber Green Rubber Technologies
Large Business Category
NeuroCatch Inc.
2018
Clayton Glass
2017
Excellence in Innovation Category: ARKTOS Developments Ltd.
Young Innovator Category: Focused Interiors
2016
Small Business Category
Micromatter Technologies
Large Business Category
FortisBC
Young Innovator Category
Shawn Davis – Compy Inc.
Organization Category
West Coast Centre for Learning
2015
Young Innovator Award
WINNER: George Cheng, Empower Operations Corporation
Small Business Innovation Award
WINNER: Vantek Innovations
Organization Innovation Award
WINNER: Pacific Community Resources Society
2014
Young Innovator Award
Winner: Sean Bindra
Excellence in Innovation Award
Winner: SOFTAC Systems Ltd.